Hansruedi Kottmann

Vertical*i, New York, USA

Hansruedi Kottmann joined Vertical*i as Chief Executive Officer in March of 2006. He brings 20+ years of experience as a business executive. Hansruedi has been instrumental in setting up European operations for several US software businesses serving the pharmaceutical, biotech, chemical and academic markets. Most of these companies were pioneering new fields and became leaders in their field.

Prior to joining Vertical*i, he served as Vice President EMEA Sales at Accelrys, a computational science company. Hansruedi also served as General Manager of Symyx Europe, a technology access and contract research organisation; Vice President Sales and Marketing of Base4, a Toronto based knowledge management systems company; Vice President and General Manager Europe at MDL Information Systems, an enterprise software company in scientific information management.